The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has suspended the licence of a Lake Macquarie green waste facility following repeated environmental breaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J E T Group Australia Pty Limited operates a composting and green waste processing business in Toronto, near Newcastle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
EPA Director Regulatory Operations, David Gathercole said their licence has been suspended as they failed to install leachate and stormwater management systems after being directed to by the EPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJ E T Group\u2019s failure to take appropriate action is extremely disappointing, with their failure to install pollution controls meaning ammonia is able to escape the property,\u201d Mr Gathercole said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDischarged ammonia can pollute waters, damage ecosystems and impact on human health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe EPA will take all necessary regulatory action against operators large or small when they fail to meet their legal obligation and put both the community and environment at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe waterways in the region deserve the best protection and the community has the right to expect them to remain pollution free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J E T Group has appealed the suspension notice to the Land and Environment Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The community will need to use an alternative facility while the facility\u2019s licence is suspended. It is an offence under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (NSW)<\/em> to transport waste to a facility that cannot lawfully receive it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has suspended the licence of a Lake Macquarie green waste facility following repeated environmental breaches. J E T Group Australia Pty Limited operates a composting and green waste processing business in Toronto, near Newcastle. EPA Director Regulatory Operations, David Gathercole said their licence has been suspended as they failed … Continue reading “EPA SUSPENDS LICENCE OF LAKE MACQUARIE COMPOSTING FACILITY\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21588,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions\/21588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}